In my previous posting I said that I’d be distilling parts of my presentations into blog posts.  This post continues that idea, focusing on the App Bar.  If we are going to place Content Before Chrome and remove as much of the navigation from the content as possible, we need a way to make the chrome (e.g., navigation and command buttons) available to the user on demand.  That is the role of the appbar.You retrieve the appbar by swiping up from the bottom or down from the top of the screen. The appbar can appear on the bottom, the top or both.  ...

In this second part of the picture gallery blog series we'll discuss how information is being passed between pages and how favorites are persisted to the phone's flash memory. If you haven't read the first part of this blog series, be sure to also check out the first part as well. Passing state When navigating between pages we need a mechanism to tell the new page what it will be visualizing. There are two ways to achieve this. One is to pass information between pages as parts of the query string in the page’s Uri. This is a rather limited approach and in...

Exciting news never comes alone. The brand-new Visual Studio 2012 is officially released bringing lots of good and handy new features, options and opportunities for all .NET developers. Telerik is never behind, and we’ve released Service Packs for your favorite Telerik tools that make them integrate seamlessly with Visual Studio 2012. The recent Telerik JustCode Service Pack 2 adds dynamic support for the new color themes in VS 2012. This means that if you change the colors and theme of your Visual Studio 2012 instance, JustCode will simply pick them up and use them. And if VS looks good, JustCode will look...

The other day I was looking with someone at the demos for the Kendo UI DropDown List and I noticed that the drop downs now have cascading functionality built right in out of the box. You would think that I would know these given the fact...

Test Studio 2012 R2 is nearly here! How close is it? I’ll tell you tomorrow. In the meantime, please join us for our release webinar next Wednesday, 26 September, at 11AM US Eastern. (Register here.) We’ll record the webinar and post it to Telerik TV; however, attending the webinar gives you the chance to ask questions and interact during the webinar. And one of you attending live will be lucky enough to win a free Instructor Led Online Training Session worth $349! The R2 release adds significant functionality around our Load and Performance testing, plus there are some ...